Sparse single-hidden layer feedforward network for mapping natural language questions to sql queries

Issam H. Laradji; Lahouari Ghouti; Faisal Saleh; Musab A. Alturki

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11179-7_31

Sparse single-hidden layer feedforward network for mapping natural language questions to sql queries

Issam H. Laradji, Lahouari Ghouti, Faisal Saleh, Musab A. Alturki

Department of Information and Computer Science

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Abstract

Mapping natural language (NL) statements into SQL queries allows users to interact with systems through everyday language. Semantic parsing has seen a growing interest over the past decades. In this paper, we extend single hidden layer feedforward network (SLFN) by adding the Kullback-Liebler (KL) divergence parameter to its objective function. We refer to this algorithm as Sparse SLFN (S-SLFN) which can learn whether an SQL query answers a particular NL question. With Bag of Words (BoW) representing the questions and the queries, the algorithm, by enforcing sparsity, is meant to retain robust features representing informative relationships and structure of the data. Experimental results show that S-SLFN outperforms SLFN and other algorithms for the GeoQueries dataset by a respectable margin.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2014 - 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	241-248
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9783319111780
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11179-7_31
State	Published - 2014
Event	24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2014 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 15 Sep 2014 → 19 Sep 2014

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8681 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2014
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	15/09/14 → 19/09/14

Keywords

Semantic Parsing
Single-hidden Layer Feedforward Network (SLFN)
Sparsity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Laradji, I. H., Ghouti, L., Saleh, F., & Alturki, M. A. (2014). Sparse single-hidden layer feedforward network for mapping natural language questions to sql queries. In Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2014 - 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings (pp. 241-248). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8681 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11179-7_31

Laradji, Issam H. ; Ghouti, Lahouari ; Saleh, Faisal et al. / Sparse single-hidden layer feedforward network for mapping natural language questions to sql queries. Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2014 - 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2014. pp. 241-248 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Laradji, IH, Ghouti, L, Saleh, F & Alturki, MA 2014, Sparse single-hidden layer feedforward network for mapping natural language questions to sql queries. in Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2014 - 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 8681 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 241-248, 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2014, Hamburg, Germany, 15/09/14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11179-7_31

Sparse single-hidden layer feedforward network for mapping natural language questions to sql queries. / Laradji, Issam H.; Ghouti, Lahouari; Saleh, Faisal et al.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2014 - 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2014. p. 241-248 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8681 LNCS).

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Laradji IH, Ghouti L, Saleh F, Alturki MA. Sparse single-hidden layer feedforward network for mapping natural language questions to sql queries. In Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2014 - 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2014. p. 241-248. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-11179-7_31

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